I wonder if she knows he lived the remainder of his life and died a devout Catholic.
with the world teetering on the brink of ww3... this is what Lady Trahan is spending her time on?
mind boggling
If I recall correctly from ‘On the Road’ Kerouac was raised by his aunt? I don’t recall him mentioning his parents in the book.
The guy may well be a great literary figure, and worthy of literature-based awards. But he was also a druggie and a drunk, so I’m not really sure why Congress should grant him particular honors just as a citizen.
Jack was born in 1922. It was a very different Western World 100 years ago. Royal families throughout Europe began losing power and influence.
1922 was only a few years after the
Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Russia abolished it’s monarchy and adopted a socialist form of government. Lenin seized power and destroyed the tradition of Czarist rule. Bolsheviks later becoming the communists of the soviet union.
This seems to be really important to do at this time.
Maybe the Democrats can sponsor a bill to honor the guy who writes the traffic signs.
“On the Road” was a pretty good book, but I enjoyed Louis Lamour’s work much more.
The liberal senators involved should celebrate his life by killings themselves
Oops. I skimmed again. I thought it said Kavorkian.
My Bad. I read On the Road while was On The Road after college. Good book.
An angry man....I’ve watched a number of interviews with him
Like Faulkner
Drank a lot and an acquired taste
Saw Truman Capote on the Tonight Show with Carson. Capote repeated his famous criticism of Kerouac, saying there was a difference between writing and typing.
Because reading the $1.5 trillion budget bill would be a waste of time.
“ Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll
I will have to reserve judgement since I have not read any of Kerouac’s work, but my sense from a distance is that he catered to narcissism and nihilism in a big way and is thus a suitable idol for the left.
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
Back in the day, I loved On the Road. It was what I needed.
We pull down statues of heros and leaders and plan to use an old church as a monument to Kerouac?